How Many Languages do you Speak?

[Egg]

Does Klingon count ?

If you fluently speak it, it's better than any other language in this thread, in my humble opinion.

 

[Ben Griebe]

You might speak six languages, you gonna need them when you’re in Times Square selling hats.

 

[Phil McKraken]

I once worked with a fellow from Russia, he could speak a few languages to a degree and pointed out that English has so many different words that are pronounced different and mean different things but spelled the same. Minute was the one example he gave, put the accent on the second syllable and you're referring to time. Put the accent on the first and you're talking about a small amount of something.

" In a minute I will take this out of the oven and add a minute amount of seasoning."

That's called pitch accent. We have the same in Swedish.

Anden - the duck
Anden - the spirit

 

[Jumptheshark]

Fluently?

English and Gibberish

able to use it say basic stuff? Hungarian(lived their for 2 years), Italian, Spanish and just enough Japanese to get my face slapped

 

[mattihp]

That's called pitch accent. We have the same in Swedish.

Anden - the duck
Anden - the spirit

Banan and banan was annoying when I was a kid.

Banan is banana, but change the pitch.. and it is the track.

Everytime we went to Stockholm we passed a track for driver training called Gillingebanan and dad always asked if we should stop for bananas, making us excited, we saw the sign saying banana.. Then he would just drive past!

 

[bluesXwinXtheXcup]

I am fluent in English only.

As a child I learned Yiddish, Chinese and Italian.

In high school I learned Spanish and German.

In the Navy I learned Japanese, Tagalog and Portuguese.

At Intel I've learned Twi and Assyrian.

"Learned"equals know a bit

 

[tuozzi]

I'm a total language nerd. Also used to travel a lot, so I got plenty of immersion.

Finnish - Native

English, Spanish - Fluent

Swedish, Italian, Turkish - I can keep a conversation going

~ 10 others - I can survive basic everyday tasks and small talk

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Spanish - fluent
German - definitely functional
Arabic - passable
French - basic
Japanese - necessary sentences and questions
Italian - little bit
Portuguese - currently learning
English - sux dirty homeless ass

 

[DaJackal]

Finnish - native
English - fluent (I think )
Swedish - functional, I've been quite good at it but due to minimal use I've forgotten a lot. Could re-learn quickly to become fluent in everyday tasks, though.
German - passable, I guess (also forgotten a lot, but can pick up quickly)
Estonian - speak badly, but understand well (especially written)
Plus at least a thousand words in Russian, because they're the same as in Finnish

 

[NigerianNightmare]

Fluently - 3,
Limited knowledge - 3,
Basics - 5

 

[mattihp]

I'm a total language nerd. Also used to travel a lot, so I got plenty of immersion.

Finnish - Native

English, Spanish - Fluent

Swedish, Italian, Turkish - I can keep a conversation going

~ 10 others - I can survive basic everyday tasks and small talk

Why Turkish? Because of being from Turku?

My partner remembers a school trip where a classmate woke up on the boat to Turku and woke everyone up saying that they've overslept and the boat was now docking in Turkey...

 

[tuozzi]

Why Turkish? Because of being from Turku?

My partner remembers a school trip where a classmate woke up on the boat to Turku and woke everyone up saying that they've overslept and the boat was now docking in Turkey...

Nope, but me being from Turku has caused quite a bit of confusion in Turkey. For example, I was on a Turkish language course in Erzurum University and when we were supposed to say where we are from, the teacher thought I misunderstood the question. Eventually I convinced him there is actually a city called Turku in Finland.

I started picking up Turkish in Istanbul on a backpacking trip. I ended up staying for about a month and going back 5 times, so far. I love that city.

 

[alko]

Slovak (my mother language)
Czech - because is very similar
German - working for Germans
English - HFboards
Spain - like this language, mostly because cartoon Cow and Chicken. Learned that for a half year. I could even read a news story and understand. But i dont have time to continue
Russia - learned that 2 years. It was a second language that was in schools back in the communist times. But forgot almost everything.

 

[mattihp]

Slovak (my mother language)
Czech - because is very similar
German - working for Germans
English - HFboards
Spain - like this language, mostly because cartoon Cow and Chicken. Learned that for a half year. I could even read a news story and understand. But i dont have time to continue
Russia - learned that 2 years. It was a second language that was in schools back in the communist times. But forgot almost everything.

Wait. How did you learn spanish from Cow and chicken?

 

[alko]

Wait. How did you learn spanish from Cow and chicken?

It was only a inspiration.

 

[mattihp]

It was only a inspiration.

You need to give us more!

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

English, Mandarin, French, basically.